2025-26 NFL Playoffs Thread

[HarryDoyle]

2 minutes ago, Fear The Chorizo said:

Pats might just kneel on it 3 plays amd punt until the Texans score again

The Texans will have to put Bobby Boucher on offense then.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Texan receivers wearing the latest brand of vaseline-infused gloves today

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Houston has no chance. 8 points may as well be 80. 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Must be nice to have a good kicker. 

[yourout]

Stroud is seeing ghosts. 

And not seeing receivers.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Crazy one handed catch....that probably shouldnt be a catch.  That ball moved once it hit the ground in his hand

[adambr2]

10 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Must be nice to have a good kicker. 

We always find a way to screw that up, whether it be Anders Carlson or Brandon McManus or that guy from Tennessee that we thought was going to be a thing before McManus.

We will probably spend a 3rd round pick on a kicker next year, only to have him hit 70% next year while other teams pull some senior citizen like Matt Prater off the street and see him hit 90%.

[wallus]

The Texans need a quarterback

[OldSchoolSnapper]

This game is over. I still think Denver has a chance next week though. 

[adambr2]

If the Rams don’t win tonight there is not really anybody to root for.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Remember CJ Stroud saying he'd rather have Eli's career than Rodgers's? How does he feel about Andy Dalton's?

[adambr2]

A 12 point lead with 5:48 left and New England just punted, and yet the game still feels like a forefone conclusion.

If we just punted with a 12 point lead and 5:48 left, we’d be crapping our pants.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

3 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

If the Rams don’t win tonight there is not really anybody to root for.

If the Rams don't win tonight it's defcon 1 to avoid the Bears. I'll give Seattle a pass, Payton who cares. The Bears absolutely cannot win it after what we did.  

[adambr2]

LOL@ Houston punting.

I know they weren’t going to convert but you have to at least try.

[adambr2]

Mike Vrabel is one of this head coaches with this radical idea of trusting his offensive and defensive coordinators to run their units so he can focus on overall team strategy, game/clock management, and leadership.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Stroud sucked but his receivers did not help much.  

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Stroud sucked but his receivers did not help much.  

One of the interesting things about both remaining AFC teams is that neither one of them have anything resembling a #1 receiver.

[yourout]

23 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

If the Rams don't win tonight it's defcon 1 to avoid the Bears. I'll give Seattle a pass, Payton who cares. The Bears absolutely cannot win it after what we did.  

Does anyone know a good witch doctor? I'll go buy up some Caleb Williams dolls and we'll see what we can do.

[HarryDoyle]

Does Valentine play for the Rams now?

[homer]

Nice to see Loveland is capable of dropping a pass

[AKCheesehead]

1 hour ago, adambr2 said:

A 12 point lead with 5:48 left and New England just punted, and yet the game still feels like a forefone conclusion.

If we just punted with a 12 point lead and 5:48 left, we’d be crapping our pants.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but the years of ineptitude, stupidity and choke jobs have hardened and galvanized me to the point of being pretty much un-pants-crappable anymore when it comes to the Packers in the playoffs.  Take last Saturday, for example.  There literally was not a single moment during that game where I actually believed that the Packers would win.  Not even for one second!  That's pretty sad when a fan can't feel any confidence whatsoever in the team finishing out a win with a 21-3 halftime lead and getting the ball in the 2nd half, but that's what the Packers have managed to to me.  I hate thinking like that, and even more, I hate being RIGHT when I think like that.  

[HarryDoyle]

I honestly can't think of one field goal this postseason that has been missed by a kicker not named Brandon McManus.

[Recovering Chicagoan]

Rams don’t look too good thus far in the bitter cold. Not a shock. It’ll be very difficult for them to win this game.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

The end of half sequence is the exact kind of thing MLF routinely screws up. The Rams clearly ran 3 plays that served no purpose other than ensuring the last play was the field goal. If something was there, fine, but really only the 1st down throw was a real attempt. 

LaFleur would have sent the FG team out with 19 seconds left because he's out of timeouts and then given the 3 right back after a 40 yard return. 

Maybe not. Maybe I'm bitter. 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I can't shake the feeling that the Bears are beating a backup QB to win the Super Bowl. 

Maybe that's why MLF got an extension. Super Bowl winning coach for the Bears.